Protesters descended on the Prince William County Government Center at 1 p.m. Tuesday, before the scheduled Board of Supervisors meeting.
The group made up of Hispanics demanded the end of the 287(g) program inside the county's jail. The program allows trained deputies of the Prince William County Sheriff's Department check the legal presence of those who have been arrested as they are processed into the jail.
Prince William police officers once received training from federal Immigration and Customs (ICE) officials to administer legal presence checks during street arrests. The police department's participation in the 287(g) program ended in 2012, leaving the job of checking jail inmates' immigration status up to sheriff's deputies at the county jail.
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